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CSR encompasses multiple bodies of work all aimed at improving math and science education for all students. The work of the center is diverse in that it encompasses research, professional development, direct service, curriculum development, electronic network creation, and evaluation. Projects within the center span elementary, middle, high-school, college and graduate education. While some of the projects are engaged in large-scale, national, systemic change efforts others are local, researching and providing direct service to classrooms in Massachusetts. Bodies of work in the center include: creating, facilitating and researching cutting-edge, online learning communities and collegial networks; researching technology integration in the science classroom; curriculum development, professional development and research projects focused on biology, biocomplexity and ecology; research and professional development aimed at improving the experience of learning-disabled students in the science classroom; informal science education related to energy conservation; and external evaluation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics projects.

The TERC Life Sciences Group of the Center for School Reform

A research and development program, the Life Sciences Group is founded on the conviction that students can and should experience the life sciences as dynamic fields of inquiry whose diversity reflects the immense diversity of living systems. More »

The following list includes all active CSR projects. | You may also access past CSR projects.

TERC and the Institute for Ecosystem Studies are developing an innovative high school curriculum designed around the dynamics of complex and evolving coupled natural and human (CNH) systems. Materials are drawn from research at the Long-Term Ecological Research sites. More »

This project has developed a multimedia-enhanced version of the TERC-developed Biocomplexity and the Habitable Planet (DRL-0628171) curriculum, a high school capstone science course. The Biocomplexity developers designed More »

The Building Systems from Scratch project will develop and study a education program that integrates computing into middle school Earth systems science by interweaving game design and science learning. More »

This project is designing and conducting a crowd-sourced open innovation challenge to young people of ages 13-18 to mitigate levels of greenhouse gases. The goal of the project is to explore the extent to which the challenge will successfully attract, engage and motivate teen participants to conduct sustained and meaningful scientific inquiry across science, technology and engineering disciplines. More »

This 5 year-grant will support the continuing design, development and maintenance of MSP.net—to include MSPnet’s technical development; content and online media creation; outreach, dissemination, and community facilitation efforts; and research and evaluation efforts. More »

TERC and the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences are developing and testing an education partnership model for climate change education that features inquiry-oriented and place-based learning. More »

The Exploratorium, in collaboration with University of Colorado in Boulder; University of Washington in Seattle; Education Development Center in Waltham, Massachusetts; Inverness Research of California, and TERC have formed a Research+Practice Collaboratory to strengthen connections between research and More »